The Unmaking Of June Farrow Quotes
"That was why I’d never fall in love. Why I’d never have a child."
"I wasn’t the first Farrow, but I would be the last."
"To my knowledge, she didn’t share that with anyone."
"Their stories were nothing compared to the ones that Gran had regaled me with."
"I had only one ambition in my simply built life, and that was to be sure the Farrow curse would end with me."
"It’s not real, I told myself, tearing my eyes away. There’s nothing there."
"The truth was, he was waiting for me to fall apart just like Birdie was."
"I worked my way down the narrow row, wedging myself against the wall of dahlias."
"My days for the last year and a half had been spent looking after Gran, and now that she was gone, I wasn’t sure where I fit anymore."
"The more I stared at it, the blacker the ink appeared. It almost seemed to be moving on the screen. Rippling like water."
"The old style of calligraphy made the words almost impossible to read."
"I'm not sick, honey. I'm just in two places at once."
"The roaring was so loud in my ears now that it was painful, a widening rift in my mind."
"Trying again, I typed 'delusion vs hallucination.'"
"Each time, I pushed the hallucination away, breathing deep and closing my mind to it until it stopped."
"My head turned to the white picket fence that encircled the graveyard."
"The truth was, if the roles were reversed, I'd do the same for him."
"What if Susanna could have somehow slipped into the past?"
"It was an entirely different reality. Complete and utter madness."
"The framed photograph I’d taken off the wall in Gran’s room was of her grandmother Esther."
"You’re always welcome here. If you ever need anything. Even just to talk."
"Birdie’s finger moved over the outline of Nathaniel’s wife, as if tracing her shape."
"We’ve got ourselves quite a problem, don’t we?"
"As long as the locket says 2023 when you open that door, that’s where it will take you."
"The best thing you can do, for all of us, is go back."
"The door won’t open to you if you don’t have the locket, and you can cross only three times."
"Which side of time you want to live on. Which life you want to live."
"Your mind can exist in two places at once, but your body cannot."
"No talking about what happens in the future to any of us."
"Don’t take off that locket. Not even to sleep."
"The only thing I really know about you, June—Is that I never really knew you at all."
"You can’t just hide here. Caleb isn’t the last person who will knock on that door."
"It's just that, sometimes, it feels like you're back. But then I remember you're not, and that makes me feel like I can’t breathe."
"You can't keep me out of it. The less I know, the more dangerous it is for all of us."
"That night, you were home. With Eamon and Annie. Just the three of you."
"It wasn’t long before she came back through that door, and I’ll never understand why she did it."
"He was consumed with this idea that you weren’t who you said you were."
"You're covering for Eamon, and I'll get what I need to prove it."
"The only person who knew the whole truth—all of it—was me. I just had to remember."
"This changes everything. You know that, right?"
"You’ve been waiting for me to come back, haven’t you?"
"Are you asking because you’re trying to decide what kind of man I am?"
"This is what happens to us, Eamon. This is what’s going to happen to her."
"You cannot go where you already exist. That was one of the rules."
"I’d never doubted Gran’s love for me, but it went deeper and further back than I ever could have imagined."
"You’re going to choose which life you want to live. If you stay here, then yes, you’ll lose your memories of that life."
"Once you lose all your memories of one life, your mind will exist only in one time. There’s no more fraying rope."
"That golden-silver hair. The rise of her cheekbones. It was all there. In the face of my daughter."
"I am June Rutherford." My throat burned as I said the name out loud for the first time in my life.
"We laid Susanna to rest three days later, and those same men who’d been at the river dug another hole in the ground."
"It was almost overwhelmingly painful to be so happy."